The bomb shelter room/FH Center; stairs going to the Gross Munster tower; boat tunnels under the Rathouse; and below is on the Zurich University campus.
NOVEMBER 18, 2008 TUESDAY
Today was wash day so we had prayer and then took our wash to the next building washroom to start the wash. Even though we had it reserved, someone got there before we did and were using the washer. We moved from Mondays so this wouldn’t happen, but I guess it didn’t work. We went back a half hour later and whoever it was had finished. So we started our wash, but it put us a little late. We went back and got ready for our district meeting at 10:30 and the pre-meeting at 10:00. We put half the clothes into the dryer before we left for the meetings and put the other half in after we returned home.
The first meeting is the one where the three sets of missionaries assigned to our ward coordinate who they’ve visited and who they want to visit this next week. We also exchanged information on unkown or less-active members we’ve already visited. For instance, when we asked about a person we planned to visit, the AP’s said they had already visited him and decided he was crazy and maybe it wouldn’t be a good idea to visit him again. They said he said he had devils in his closets and had the Catholic priest come exorcise them, but when the devils left, they took all his belongings with them. And then they came back again. The AP’s said he had a lot of others weird scary ideas, so maybe we’ll skip him for awhile. It was a good meeting and hopefully we can do our work this week without interfering with someone else’s plans.
The next meeting was fun and spiritual at the same time as is usual for our district meetings. We set some new goals for the coming 6 weeks and extended some of the goals we were currently working on. We measure everything in six week periods because transfers happen every six weeks. The lesson this time was given by the Zone Leaders, Elder Gunther and his new companion (I think Elder Harris). It was on being united not only as companions, but also being united with Christ. This lesson can be used for any group that needs to be united. To begin with the missionaries were divided up into 4 groups of three people. Each group was given a sheet of paper folded into three sections like you would fold it to put into a business size envelope. The goal for each group was to draw the picture of the perfect missionary. The oldest person in the group would draw the legs on the bottom fold; the next Elder would draw the body without looking at the legs (fold the paper to cover the legs but leave small lines above the fold to show where the legs were); the last missionary drew the neck and head. Without unfolding the paper, they were given to the instructor. To set it up they read several scriptures on being one or united, and then opened up the sheet so you could see the whole picture perfect drawing of the perfect missionary. You can guess the results, very weird looking pictures. Sum it up by saying everyone has his own opinions and desires etc., but unless we figure out how to be united and one, we can’t get the job done.
Since we had a new sister missionary pair and a new Elder, we did the same get acquainted activity that we did when we first arrived. Elder Pine handed out a form with questions you write down about yourself. We took some rice crispie treats for them and they were way happy to see them. Even the two from England were excited to get some.
After the meeting we came home, finished drying the wash and then went out searching and finding. It was still raining lightly today, but it wasn’t too bad. We got off the stop by the University of Zurich, walked uphill (lots of steps for Diana) across the campus to the other side to find one sister in a care center. Unfortunately she had moved from there a few years ago and we didn’t get a forwarding address this time. We walked back, hopped onto a tram , got off at the next stop and walked to our next address. He wasn’t home so we left a note with an invitation to come join us for worship services on Sundays. Then we walked around a little looking in some of the many little stores everywhere you go to find some baking soda. No such luck. Then we found a new tram to ride to a connection to tram 9 and came home. We had been fasting for Naeide so we broke our fast and had dinner early. Tonight is English class and Institute. We’re hoping Dora Wachter will come to the English class. We haven’t seen her for a month now.
We’re back from class and Institute and Sis. Wachter wasn’t there, but the Elders said she had been having problems with her son and would maybe be to the English class next week. The Elders turned it into a German class since Diana and I were the only other ones there. We learned more about the different divisions in Buddism in Institute.
3 comments:
Not only are there a lot of clocks in the church towers, but bells too. They are always sounding on the half hour and hour, some on the 1/4 hours. Many people I would imagine tell time by the chimes, but we don't especially. Yes, I was at many of the places when I was here as a missionary before. If you look through my slides that Monica has, you'll see many of the same pictures. The plaster Mom buys is 4.90 for 5 kg. or 11 lbs. The one picture of the FH room in the basement of the church is also where we hold High Priest Meeting and a SS class meets down there. All buildings are constructed in the same manner. Sorry Rebecca, I do know how to spell you name.
I thought you had given me a new nickname hehe. I added a traffic feed on the bottom left hand side of this blog...to make it so it doesn't count you click "options" at the bottom of the feed and click "ignore my browser" or something like that. That way it won't show up whenever you log on. And you can see who's visiting you. If you don't want it just remove it.
Those stairs would get me dizzy! I would love to be able to hear bells all day long. I think it would put me in a good mood unless I was sleeping/napping. do they run all night long too?
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